Determination of molecular parameters of NR/PU block copolymers by transport studies |
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Authors: | S. Gopakumar |
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Affiliation: | School of Chemical Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Priyadarshini Hills, Kottayam 686 560, Kerala, India |
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Abstract: | The equilibrium swelling experiments of block copolymers based on natural rubber (NR) as soft segment and polyurethane (PU) derived from toluene diisocyanate (TDI) and 1,3-butane diol (1,3-BDO) as hard segment were performed in various solvents. Block copolymers with different NCO/OH ratio, viz., from 1.26 to 1.96 were employed in this study. The crosslink densities are found to vary with the NCO/OH ratio employed in the synthesis of the samples. The sorption behaviour is also found to vary with the NCO/OH ratio. The equilibrium swelling experiments have been used to determine the molecular parameters such as molecular mass between crosslinks, crosslink density, polymer-solvent interaction parameter, etc. The equilibrium swelling values were also used to calculate the solubility parameter values of the block copolymers. |
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Keywords: | Polyurethane Natural rubber Molecular parameter Block copolymer Swelling studies |
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